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The Education Technology team is responsible for design, development, implementation and evaluation of products and services that use technology to enhance the educational process for formal and informal education and lifelong learning.

Virtual Lab
The Virtual Lab is a free, downloadable program providing virtual access to a variety of sophisticated scientific instruments. Your students will be the scientist, conducting their own investigations. This inquiry based software empowers students to explore and investigate; they will learn from directly manipulating the instrument controls. Numerous teacher resources are available, including lesson plans, assessment tools, and short videos describing how the instrument works, how it is used at NASA, and how the specimens are prepared. By providing a fun, hands-on experience that brings relevance to class material, we hope to inspire the next generation of explorers.
+ Virtual Lab Home Page

Enter the Firing Room
Come Enter the Firing Room and meet the engineers who work in KSC’s launch firing rooms. The site includes shuttle processing information, fun facts, pictures and a special page for educators. Students get a chance to meet actual engineers through videos and biographies. Videos of astronauts are also featured on the site. After exploring the site, students can test their knowledge by taking the Launch Simulation Quiz. The site also provides links to student employment opportunities at NASA.
Find out more about Enter the Firing Room from our + Overview Information

Rocket Scientists
Our Launch Services Program at KSC is responsible for our many rocket launches. The Rocket Scientists website highlights the engineers who work all aspects of KSC's rocket launches. The site includes rocket processing information, background data on the vehicles, fun facts, and pictures. Students get a chance to meet the rocket system engineers through videos and biographies. After exploring the site, students can test their knowledge by assembling a rocket from main engine all the way to a payload!
View + Rocket Scientist Website here.

The Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System
The Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System, or KLASS would like you to bring a launch countdown into your classroom! Would your students like to serve as console engineers for a launch countdown? Now they can! Based on the actual software used for training in the Launch Control Center, this software enables a launch countdown simulation with any networked system of computers. Materials are created by teachers for teachers, with alignment to national standards. There are five console stations for your student engineers, Main Engines, External Tank, BioMed, or OBS, Weather, and Environmental Control. While this is targeted at middle school, it is very easily scaled up to the high school level.

Go to the official + KLASS website.

Point of Contact:
Gloria A. Murphy
Education Technology
Mailcode: XA-D
Voice: (321) 867-8934
Fax: (321) 867-2097
E-mail: Gloria.A.Murphy@nasa.gov

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